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bers of birds, especially honeyeaters. In fact most of the commoner 
birds of the district may be seen in the town at one time or 
another. 
The birds seem very fond of the needlebush (hakea) for building 
in, no doubt because of its formidable nature and consequent 
security. 
In regard to nesting, the district is very patchy ; in one or two 
fayoured corners you will find more in a day than at other parts in a 
month. 
Ducks and other waterbirds are occasionally to be seen at 
Crusve Keservoir, but I have never been able to identify any of 
them. 
I have seen quail also in the scrub, but I never managed to 
secure a specimen, though they are reported to be very plentiful at 
times, 
In a beautiful collection of birds stuffed by Mr. J. Washington 
J saw a number which I never came across myself, but it is of no use 
to enumerate them here. 
The names used above are from the list published by the 
Australasian Association in 1898. 
A COLOSSAL INDEX OF PHOTOGRAPHS, 
Muon the same kind of revolution has been caused by photography 
in all that appertains to the pictorial representation of our daily 
life as resulted centuries ago from the introduction of typography 
in literary matters. An immense mass of material—portraiture, 
copies of paintings and of statuary, photographs of edifices, . 
including not only those of the imposing type represented by 
cathedrals, ancient castles, and princely halls, but the equally 
interesting, if more humble, dwellings of our ancestors, which the 
ravages of time and the changed condition of modern life have 
spared to us—has accumulated in various hands. In addition to 
to these, countless other photographs—equally~valuakle to different 
sections of the public—are garnered up in the hands of professional 
photographers, are stored in a variety of public institutions, or 
remain in the possession of the amateurs who made them. 
The potential value of these records is incalculable, but their 
practical use is discounted by the difficulty which those who desire 
to make use ot them have in discovering where they are lodged, or 
eyen in knowing if the particular record in request is in existence. 
In this matter Mr, Snowden Ward and the staff of The 
Photogram have rendered the public a service not easily over- 
estimated. Jor three years they have been engaged in gathering 
